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Top 23 JavaScript Image Projects
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vanilla-lazyload
LazyLoad is a lightweight, flexible script that speeds up your website by deferring the loading of your below-the-fold images, backgrounds, videos, iframes and scripts to when they will enter the viewport. Written in plain "vanilla" JavaScript, it leverages IntersectionObserver, supports responsive images and enables native lazy loading.
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lozad.js
🔥 Highly performant, light ~1kb and configurable lazy loader in pure JS with no dependencies for responsive images, iframes and more
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https://kroki.io/#try
Shout out to Kroki, which offers Mermaid and many other text-based diagramming formats.
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Project mention: Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-11
For over 10 years that I maintain a reasonably popular cross-browser extension, I've been collecting various monetization offers. They simply don't stop coming: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
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drift
Easily add "zoom on hover" functionality to your site's images. Lightweight, no-dependency JavaScript. (by strawdynamics)
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AppSignal
AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
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next-image-export-optimizer
Use Next.js advanced <Image/> component with the static export functionality. Optimizes all static images in an additional step after the Next.js static export.
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react-native-image-resource-generator
CLI tool to generate code-friendly image URI source constants for React Native
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images-downloader
A Node.js module for downloading a single image or multiple images to disk from a given Url
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
JavaScript Images discussion
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Image projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | vanilla-lazyload | 7,854 |
| 2 | lozad.js | 7,495 |
| 3 | Parsr | 6,178 |
| 4 | kroki | 4,272 |
| 5 | hoverzoom | 2,047 |
| 6 | drift | 1,563 |
| 7 | nanogallery2 | 790 |
| 8 | ImageScript | 675 |
| 9 | Bulksplash | 564 |
| 10 | next-image-export-optimizer | 539 |
| 11 | react-imgix | 383 |
| 12 | lqip-modern | 358 |
| 13 | torrent-docker | 319 |
| 14 | serverless-sharp | 172 |
| 15 | magnificent.js | 167 |
| 16 | picpic | 154 |
| 17 | aladin-lite | 153 |
| 18 | chafa-wasm | 83 |
| 19 | MMM-ImagesPhotos | 54 |
| 20 | simple-image-server | 26 |
| 21 | react-native-image-resource-generator | 23 |
| 22 | images-downloader | 20 |
| 23 | unblur-ai | 17 |
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